Elven Raft-Steerer
Elven Raft-Steerer2 U
Creature — Elf Pilot
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one — • Tap target creature an opponent controls. • Untap target creature you control.
uncommon3/2

Elven Raft-Steerer

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Limited summary

Three-mana 3/2 that taps a blocker or untaps your creature every time a land enters — the premier common-tier Landfall engine. With extra land drops it controls combat every single turn.

Roles

CreatureRole — Mainly provides a body on the board.PayoffRewards you when the archetype's condition is met — only as good as your enabler count.

Archetypes

GU Elves / LandfallGU Elves / Landfall — SimicElf ramp-tempo deck using Landfall triggers. Extra land drops and land recursion snowball incremental advantages into oversized threats and card flow.How it plays: Extra-land effects are the engine: value them above replacement-level creatures. Hold fetch-style lands to trigger Landfall at the best moment. Can pivot between aggro tempo and ramp endgame.

Gameplay notes

Hold a land in hand so you can trigger it exactly when combat math matters. Tapping a blocker pre-combat or untapping a surprise blocker are both real modes.

Key synergies

Wood Elves
Wood ElvesEnabler → PayoffOne card sets up the condition the other rewards.Synergy strength 3/3 — Strong

Wood Elves puts a Forest directly onto the battlefield — an extra Landfall trigger stapled to a body.

Roads Go Ever, Ever On
Roads Go Ever, Ever OnEnabler → PayoffOne card sets up the condition the other rewards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

The banked Plains from chapters II and III guarantee a land drop — and a Landfall tap/untap trigger — on each of the next two turns, exactly when you want to keep attacks flowing into chapter IV.

Through the Forest Gate
Through the Forest GateDirect SynergyExplicit mechanical interaction between the two cards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

Putting several lands into play at once fires the Raft-Steerer for each one — a one-card combat blowout.

Down in the Valley
Down in the ValleyEnabler → PayoffOne card sets up the condition the other rewards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

The Saga finds a land and later makes your land drops produce Elves — every land is doing double duty with the Raft-Steerer out.

Silvan Reveler
Silvan RevelerEnabler → PayoffOne card sets up the condition the other rewards.Synergy strength 2/3 — Meaningful

The Reveler's land-into-play loot is an extra Raft-Steerer trigger, and its recursion keeps bodies flowing for the tempo plan.

Synergy graph

Min strength
Silvan Reveler ↔ Wood Elves Archetype Synergy · strength 1/3Down in the Valley ↔ Silvan Reveler Archetype Synergy · strength 2/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Wood Elves Enabler → Payoff · strength 3/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Roads Go Ever, Ever On Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Through the Forest Gate Direct Synergy · strength 2/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Down in the Valley Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Elven Raft-Steerer ↔ Silvan Reveler Enabler → Payoff · strength 2/3Elven Raft-Steerer (this card)
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